Computer Science
Scientific paper
Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994gecoa..58.5567w&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 58, Issue 24, pp.5567-5577
Computer Science
Scientific paper
Synsedimentary fibrous calcite cements in reefs representing different periods of Early Cambrian time from eastern Siberia, southern Australia, and eastern Canada were analyzed to determine whether they retained information about the chemical and isotopic compositions of the seawater from which they precipitated. Although petrographically similar, the Sr, O, and C isotopic compositions as well as the Sr and Mg contents of the cements from the three areas are different. Such differences can be attributed to varying degrees of diagenesis of the cements that correlate with the tectonic history of each area: cements from the Siberian craton are the least altered, cements from near the Appalachian Orogen are partially altered and cements from the Flinders fold and thrust belt are extensively altered. Strontium contents of the fibrous cements generally increase with Mg contents, although the correlation among these two elements is more variable than that reported for Devonian or Holocene cements. Those cements with Sr / Mg ratios near 0.04, which include clear fibrous calcite, have the lowest 87 Sr / 86 Sr ratios and have been least altered. Strontium isotopic ratios in the least altered cements are lower than whole rock ratios and probably approach the original values of Early Cambrian seawater. 18 O values in the cements are variable because of exchange with diagenetic fluids, whereas 13 C values exhibit local variations that do not match temporal curves constructed from whole-rock data for the same regions. Thus, most of the original chemical and isotopic compositions of these cements have been variably changed through diagenesis, although limited information about the composition of Early Cambrian seawater, such as Sr and C isotopic compositions, have been retained in some samples.
James Noel P.
Kyser Kurt T.
Whittaker S. G.
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